AWE Burghfield: Nuclear Weapons

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1668W, on AWE Burghfield: nuclear weapons, what internationally recognised standards and codes of practice are applicable.

Quentin Davies: A wide range of internationally recognised standards and codes of practice are pertinent to the proposed main process facility for the assembly and disassembly of nuclear warheads at AWE Burghfield. Those that are most relevant to the resilience to nuclear accidents are in the following table.
	
		
			  Document Reference Number  Reference 
			 JSP 482 MoD Explosives Regulations 
			 T/AST/ 003 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Safety Systems 
			 T/AST/ 005 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Demonstration of ALARP 
			 T/AST/ 007 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Severe Accident Analysis 
			 T/AST/ 008 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Safety Categorisation and Equipment Qualification 
			 T/AST/ 017 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Structural Integrity, Civil Engineering Aspects 
			 T/AST/018 Nil Technical Assessment Guide - Criticality Incident Detection Systems 
			 T/AST/006 Deterministic Safety Analysis and use of Engineering Principles in Safety Assessment 
			 TM5-1300 Structures to resist the effects of Accidental Explosions. US Departments of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force November 1990 
			 UFC UFC 3-340-01 Protective Structures Automated Design System (PSADS) Design and Analysis of Hardened Structures To Conventional Weapons Effects U.S. Army Corps of Engineers June 2002 
			 No reference number Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 
			 No reference number Baker, W et al Explosion Hazards and Evaluation 1983 
			 No reference number Kingery, C.N. Bulmarsh, G Airblast Parameters from Spherical Air Burst and Hemispherical Surface Burst US Army Armament Research and Development Centre 1984 
			 No reference number Hyde, D Con Wep - Conventional Weapons Effects. Department of the Army, Waterways Experimental Station, US Army Corps of Engineers 1986 
		
	
	Typical standards relating to facility integrity are in the following table.
	
		
			  Document Reference Number  Reference 
			 ACI349-06 Code Requirements For Nuclear Safety Related Concrete Structures 
			 ANSI/AISC341sl-05 Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings 
			 ANSI/AISC 358-05 Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Moment Frames in Seismic Applications 
			 ANSI/AISC 360 05 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings 
			 ASCE 43-05 Seismic Design Criteria for Structures, Systems and Components in Nuclear Facilities 
			 ASCE 4-98 Seismic analysis of safety related nuclear structures 
			 ATC40 Applied Technology Council Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Concrete Buildings 
			 AWSD1.8/D1.8M:2005 Structural Welding Code - Seismic Supplement 
			 BS 2573; Part 1 Rules for the Design of cranes - Specification for classification, stress calculations and design criteria for structures; 1983.. 
			 BS 2573; Part 2 Rules for the Design of cranes - Specification for classification, stress calculations and design of mechanisms; 1983. 
			 BS 2573-1 Rules for the Design of Cranes - Part 1: Specification for Classification, Stress Calculations and Design Criteria for Structures 
			 BS 2573-2 Rules for the Design of Cranes - Part 2: Specification for Classification, Stress Calculations and Design of Mechanisms 
			 BS 4094 Data on Shielding from Ionising Radiation 
			 BS 4449:2005 Steel for the reinforcement of concrete - Weldable reinforcing steel - Bar, coiled and decoiled product. 
			 BS 5628 Code of Practice for use of masonry 
			 BS 5760 Reliability of systems, equipment and components 
			 BS 5950-1:2000 Structural use of steelwork in buildings. Code of Practice for design - Rolled and welded sections. 
			 BS 6385 Ergonomic principles in the design of work systems 
			 BS 6399 Loading for buildings 
			 BS 8110-1:1997 Structural Use of Concrete. Part 1 Code of Practice for design and construction. 
			 BS EN 13001-1 Crane Safety -General Design 
			 BS EN 13001-2 Crane Safety-General Design 
			 BS EN 13463-1 Non-electrical equipment for potentially explosive atmospheres 
			 BS EN 292-1 Safety of Machinery- Basic concepts, general principals for design 
			 BS EN 349 Safety of machinery: Minimum gaps to avoid crushing parts of the human body 
			 BS EN 614 Safety of machinery: Ergonomic design principles 
			 BS EN 62305 Lightning Regulations 
			 BS EN ISO 11604 Ergonomic Design of Control Centres 
			 BS EN 1011-2: 2001 Welding Recommendations for welding of metallic materials Arc welding of ferritic steels 
			 BS EN 287-1: 2004 Qualification test of welders Fusion welding. Steels 
			 BS EN 875: 1995 Destructive tests on welds in metallic materials. Impact tests Test specimen location, notch orientation and examination 
			 BS EN ISO 15609-1 Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials. Welding procedure specification Arc welding 
			 BS EN ISO 15614-1 Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials - Welding procedure test - Part 1 Arc and gas welding of steels and arc welding of nickel and nickel alloys 
			 Def Stan 00-25 Human factors for designers of equipment 
			 Def Stan 00-40 Reliability and Maintainability (R and M) 
			 Def Stan 00-41 Reliability and Maintainability MOD Guide to Practices and Procedures 
			 DEF STAN 08-5 Structural requirements for weapon support equipment; Issue 1 Chapter 5 
			 FEMA 440 Improvement of non-linear static seismic analysis procedures (2005) 
			 HSEACOPL138 Health and Safety Executive - Approved Code of Practice and Guidance - Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres 
			 IAEA Tecdoc 1333 Earthquake experience and seismic qualification by indirect methods in nuclear installations 
			 IAEA-TECDOC-1347 IAEA Report: Consideration of external events in the design of nuclear facilities other than nuclear power plants, with emphasis on earthquakes, dated March 2003 
			 IEEE 344:1987 Recommended practice for seismic qualification of Class IE equipment for nuclear power generating stations 
			 IRPCG Changerooms Design Operation and Maintenance a Nuclear Industry Code of Practice 
			 JSP 440 Defence Manual for Security 
			 JSP 467 The specification of power driven lifting appliances used for handling conventional and nuclear armaments 
			 JSP 482 Explosives regulations 
			 JSP 538 Issue 2. Regulation of the Nuclear Weapon Programme - Nuclear Weapon Safety Principles and Safety Criteria and Safety Principles and Guidelines for Nuclear Weapon Systems 
			 Kincade, R.G. Anderson J. - Electrical Power Institute Human Factors Guide for Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Development. Other standards 
			 Mil Std 1472D Department of Defence: Human engineering requirements for military systems, equipment and facilities 
			 Mil Std 1472F Department of Defence: Design Criteria Standard - Human engineering 
			 MoD/DE Functional Standard Design and Maintenance Guide 02 'Glazing standards for MoD buildings subject to terrorist threat' 
			 NF0121/1 Ergonomics: Guidelines for the design of operator interfaces. British Nuclear Fuels plc 
			 SI 1988 No. 1657 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 
			 SI 1998 No. 2307 The lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations (LOLER) 
			 SI 1999 No. 3232 Ionising Radiation Regulations (IRRs) 
			 STGP10 (Sea Technology Group, MoD) "HFI Management Guide" 
			 No reference number Flood Estimation Handbook, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, 1999 
			 No reference number Flood Studies Report, Institute of Hydrology, HR Wallingford, UK, 1975 
			 No reference number The Crown Fire Standards 1997 
			 No reference number Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 
			 No reference number SQUG, Generic Implementation Procedure GIP for Seismic Verification of Nuclear Plant Equipment - Revision 3 A, December 2001